Fast releases demand binary updates.. (Was: Release schedule for 2006)

2005-12-17 Thread Joe Rhett
On Fri, Dec 16, 2005 at 12:04:05AM -0700, Scott Long wrote: > There will be three FreeBSD 6 releases in 2006. While this is nice, may I suggest that it is time to put aside/delay one release cycle and come up with a binary update mechanism supported well by the OS? Increasing the speed of release

Re: HEADS UP: Release schedule for 2006

2005-12-17 Thread Joe Rhett
On Fri, Dec 16, 2005 at 12:04:05AM -0700, Scott Long wrote: > There will be three FreeBSD 6 releases in 2006. While this is nice, may I suggest that it is time to put aside/delay one release cycle and come up with a binary update mechanism supported well by the OS? Increasing the speed of release

Re: ahd0: Invalid Sequencer interrupt occurred.

2005-11-16 Thread Joe Rhett
vant? Many of us have just as many production linux boxes as we do production Windows boxes. (that would be *none*) -- Joe Rhett senior geek SVcolo : Silicon Valley Colocation ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/ma

Re: drive failure during rebuild causes page fault

2005-05-22 Thread Joe Rhett
w to do this using dd from the start of the disk. How do I do this at the end of the disk? -- Joe Rhett senior geek meer.net ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: drive failure during rebuild causes page fault

2005-05-20 Thread Joe Rhett
On Thu, May 19, 2005 at 08:21:13AM +0200, Søren Schmidt wrote: > On 19/05/2005, at 2.20, Joe Rhett wrote: > > >Soren, I've just retested all of this with 5.4-REL and most of the > >problems > >listed here are solved. The only problems appear to be related to

Re: drive failure during rebuild causes page fault

2005-05-18 Thread Joe Rhett
d in the mkIII patches then I'd be willing to investigate, but I will need to be certain. I know that you have no desire to work on this older code, but could you at least clue me in on how to get atacontrol to drop these ghost arrays? On Tue, Dec 14, 2004 at 04:53:59PM -0800, Joe Rhett wrote: >

Re: ports directories are broken again?

2005-01-04 Thread Joe Rhett
's how things are today. You're > welcome to submit a PR with your suggestion on how to change the > documentation to annotate this. It's not a documentation issue, it's an accuracy issue. Is there a port or not? Is there a package for the port, or not? -- Joe Rhett S

Re: ports directories are broken again?

2005-01-04 Thread Joe Rhett
w.freebsd.org/cgi/ports.cgi?query=frontpage&stype=name&release=5.3-RELEASE%2Fi386 -- Joe Rhett Senior Geek Meer.net ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: ports directories are broken again?

2004-12-31 Thread Joe Rhett
> On Fri, Dec 31, 2004 at 11:09:04AM -0800, Joe Rhett wrote: > > neptune.sv$ pkg_add -r frontpage > > Error: FTP Unable to get > > ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-5.3-release/Latest/frontpage.tbz: > > File unavailable (e.g., file not found, no acc

ports directories are broken again?

2004-12-31 Thread Joe Rhett
--1 110 0 250431 Oct 21 21:21 frontline-0.5.4_1.tbz 226 Directory send OK. -- Joe Rhett Senior Geek Meer.net ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: is rebooting after a page fault disabled in 5.3-release?

2004-12-14 Thread Joe Rhett
> > > On Sun, 12 Dec 2004, Joe Rhett wrote: > > > > As another side note, is there a reason that 5.3 doesn't reboot after > > > > page > > > > faults? The crash and dumpdev man pages still indicate that it should. > > > > This ma

Re: drive failure during rebuild causes page fault

2004-12-14 Thread Joe Rhett
t with the HW I have here in the lab, which by far > covers all possible permutations, so testing etc by the community is > very much needed here to get things sorted out... -- Joe Rhett Senior Geek Meer.net ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://

Re: drive failure during rebuild causes page fault

2004-12-14 Thread Joe Rhett
y sandbox in the lab, and we'd be happy to let you play with it (can't ship it to you, but ...) What can I give you to help you out? -- Joe Rhett Senior Geek Meer.net ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinf

Re: drive failure during rebuild causes page fault

2004-12-13 Thread Joe Rhett
> did not even "yank" the disk. He detached it in a somewhat orderly > fashion using "atacontrol detach." Actually, I did both and both caused the same page fault :-( -- Joe Rhett Senior Geek Meer.net ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] maili

Re: drive failure during rebuild causes page fault

2004-12-13 Thread Joe Rhett
> > On Sun, Dec 12, 2004 at 09:59:16PM -0800, Doug White wrote: > > > Thats a nice shotgun you have there. > On Sun, 12 Dec 2004, Joe Rhett wrote: > > Yessir. And that's what testing is designed to uncover. The question is > > why this works, and how do we pr

Re: is rebooting after a page fault disabled in 5.3-release?

2004-12-13 Thread Joe Rhett
> On Sun, 12 Dec 2004, Joe Rhett wrote: > > As another side note, is there a reason that 5.3 doesn't reboot after page > > faults? The crash and dumpdev man pages still indicate that it should. > > This makes this problem hard to work on (must be at facility to debug..)

is rebooting after a page fault disabled in 5.3-release?

2004-12-13 Thread Joe Rhett
2004 at 09:41:59PM -0800, Joe Rhett wrote: > And another, I can now confirm that it is fairly easy to kill 5.3-release > during the rebuilding process. The following steps will cause a kernel > page fault consistently: ... > Fatal trap 12: page fault while in kernel mode > f

Re: drive failure during rebuild causes page fault

2004-12-12 Thread Joe Rhett
> On Sun, 12 Dec 2004, Joe Rhett wrote: > > And another, I can now confirm that it is fairly easy to kill 5.3-release > > during the rebuilding process. The following steps will cause a kernel > > page fault consistently: > > > > atacontrol create RAID0

Re: drive failure during rebuild causes page fault

2004-12-12 Thread Joe Rhett
wrong thing should not exist!) On Sun, Dec 12, 2004 at 09:42:00PM -0800, Joe Rhett wrote: > And another, I can now confirm that it is fairly easy to kill 5.3-release > during the rebuilding process. The following steps will cause a kernel > page fault consistently: > > atac

drive failure during rebuild causes page fault

2004-12-12 Thread Joe Rhett
address = 0x10 current process = 1063 (rebuilding ar0 1%) trap number = 12 panic: page fault (tell me if you want or need anything I skipped above. Got lazy cause I had to type it in by hand...) -- Joe Rhett Senior Geek Meer.net ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED

confusing status/log messages for degraded array

2004-12-12 Thread Joe Rhett
is wrong? Just to shorten the thread, I think that clarity would be achieved with: sandbox# atacontrol status 0 ar0: ATA RAID1 subdisks: ad6 ad10(DOWN) status: DEGRADED Dec 12 21:13:39 sandbox kernel: Rebuilding array ar0: ad6 -> ad10 -- Joe Rhett Senior Ge